Ota-Dose
Posted on July 20th, 2007
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 3:17 am
In the interest of wasting of everyone’s time, I figured I’d post a random observation about myself, or rather about things I own, namely the following:
I own three different depictions of Cardcaptor Sakura in the same outfit. Specifically, a wallscroll, an 8 inch PVC figure and a small coin figure. This is notable because said character has dozens upon dozens of outfits both in the manga and the TV series, so to have racked up 3 versions of the same outfit in different mediums probably means I have too much anime stuff. I’ve decided to call this state of affairs ota-dose, a contraction of otaku and overdose. I mention this because I think I’m currently suffering from it. I mean, I literally have over 65 anime DVDs I haven’t watched at this point. Ok, some of that is stuff like Gravion which I won at a panel, and that I would never watch otherwise, and may never watch, but discounting that stuff and then given an average of 2 hours of content per DVD, we’re talking well over 5 days of non-stop anime. Taken in a more reasonable dose, that’d still be a good month’s worth of all my viewing being anime viewing. I am in desperate need of shelf-space, yet, I haven’t made the time to put it up because when I’m not traveling, I’m typically on the internet talking about anime and manga (though at least I have the “I’m a mod/reporter”-excuse there.) Thus I have four huge piles of manga on my floor, I have DVDs scattered all over the place and the only time I clear space on my desk or my dresser is to make room for more figurines.
In short, if you see me buying something anime that isn’t, say, a gift for a friend or a volume of DVD or manga series I’m already collecting, you’re with in rights to tell me to knock it off. It’s probably for the best if you do. Unless of course it’s from the TMS Classics DVD line. I mean, at those prices, how can I pass it up???
Oh right, that’s probably why I ended up with different versions of the same thing in the first place. -_-;
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